Quotes About Learning

Who cared about or enjoyed learning when our whole being was at stake every time she gave us a test or called on us in class?

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the success and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. – Benjamin Barber

But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they

If, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you're open to accurate information about your current abilities, even if it's unflattering.

You mean I don't have to be dumb?

With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

his extreme love of learning and challenge.

It's no wonder that many adolescents mobilize their resources, not for learning, but to protect their egos. And

The fixed mindset says yes. You can simply measure the fixed ability right now and project it into the future. Just give the test or ask the expert.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

tune in to the messages you're sending. Are they messages that say: You have permanent traits and I'm judging them? Or are they messages that say You're a developing person and I'm interested in your development?

For in the world of the fixed mindset, there is no way to become an Eagle. If you were a true Eagle, you would have aced the test and been hailed as an Eagle at once.

Does ability automatically take you where you want to go?

What can I learn from this? How can I improve? How can I help my partner do this better?

Salerno-Sonnenberg was terrified of losing DeLay. She finally decided that trying and failing -- an honest failure -- was better than the course she had been on.

Esto es lo que eso significa: solo porque algunas personas puedan hacer bien algo sin necesidad de esforzarse, eso no significa que no lo puedan hacer otros con entrenamiento (y a veces, incluso mejor). Esto es muy importante, porque hay muchísima gente con mentalidad fija que cree que el rendimiento temprano de alguien ya te dice todo lo que hay que saber sobre su talento y su futuro.

understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift.

When students don't know how to do something and others do, the gap seems unbridgeable. Some educators try to reassure their students that they're just fine as they are. Growth-minded teachers tell students the truth and then give them the tools to close the gap.

This point is also crucial. In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome. They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated. And that's what they were doing—getting smarter. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

Recuerda que alabar la inteligencia o el talento de los niños, por tentador que sea, envía un mensaje de mentalidad fija. Hace que su confianza y su motivación sean más frágiles. En su lugar, intenta enfocarte en los procedimientos que usan: sus estrategias, su esfuerzo, lo que eligen.

Lo que quiero decir es que incluso cuando piensas que algo no se te da bien, todavía puedes meterte de lleno en ello con entusiasmo y mantenerlo. En realidad, si te sumerges de cabeza en algo es porque no lo dominas. Esto es un rasgo maravilloso de la mentalidad de crecimiento: no tienes que pensar que ya eres excelente en algo que quieras hacer y que disfrutas haciendo.